Courses Quote by David First

We [Notekillers] are in no way super-earnest about what we do and if you see us live, you see we are cracking up during…

— David First

There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.

— Mstislav Rostropovich

“How is it that music can, without words, evoke our laughter, our fears, our highest aspirations?”

— Jane Swan

Music is the silence between the notes.

— Claude Debussy

Even 'The Inevitability of Death' is kind of a funny song more than anything. I mean, I thought it would be funny imagining radio…

— Gord Downie

“perhaps we desire death / or why is poison so sweet? / why do little Sirens make kindlier music / for a man caught…

— Robinson Jeffers

We've mastered the art of making pretty music that makes you want to die.

— Sean Kinney

It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted.

— George Eliot

This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.

— Leonard Bernstein

Music can be witty, but it's not funny unless it's conceptually funny.

— Alan Menken

Nobody had song titles that were as long as ours. A lot of it was just inside jokes.

— Brendon Urie

As a musician I tell you that if you were to suppress adultery, fanaticism, crime, evil, the supernatural, there would no longer be the…

— Georges Bizet